Chanteur Country Néo-Zélandais né Robert William Lane le 30 Août 1916 à Nelson (Nouvelle-Zélande). Tex Morton est décédé le 23 Juillet 1983 à Sydney, New South Wales (Australie).

Born Robert William Lane, 8 August 1916, Nelson, New Zealand, d. 23 July 1983, Sydney, Australia. A Maori neighbour taught Morton his first guitar chords and he became so obsessed with music that, at the age of 15, he ran away from home and busked on the streets of Waihi. When asked one day by the town’s policemen if his name was Bobby Lane, he noticed a nearby garage sign that gave the name of ‘Morton’ and quickly informed the officer that his name was Bob Morton and that he was a street singer and entertainer.
Morton worked on various jobs, including one with a travelling troupe known as the Gaieties Of 1932. He made some aluminium disc recordings in Wellington (never commercially released), which proved very popular on local radio and may well be the first country music records made outside the USA. In 1932, he moved to Australia and worked with travelling shows, where, in addition to singing, he worked as a magician, a boxing booth fighter, with wild animals, as the stooge for others, and even rode as a Wall Of Death rider. In 1934, with a repertoire of Australian bush ballads as well as the early country songs that he had heard on record, he moved to Sydney. He undertook whatever jobs he could find, including going to sea as a stoker and electrician, and once worked as a labourer for the firm responsible for installing the lighting on Sydney Harbour Bridge.
After eventually winning a major talent show, he made his first recordings for Regal Zonophone Records in February 1936 when, among the four tracks recorded, two, ‘Happy Yodeller’ and ‘Swiss Sweetheart’, were his own compositions. The records sold well, further sessions soon followed and by 1937, Tex Morton the Yodelling Boundary Rider was a nationally known star. When he played his first concert in Brisbane, the crowd totalled 50, 000. He continued to record throughout the late 30s, the material ranging from known country songs and his own numbers to recitations of the works of famous Australian poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. He published his Tex Morton songbook and a newspaper even ran a comic strip of his adventures. In 1939, a major star, he had established his own travelling circus/rodeo, where apart from singing, he entertained with trick shooting, fancy riding, a memory act and magic. World War II forced him to close his show and he invested heavily in a dude ranch, losing all his money when the project failed. After the war, he re-formed his rodeo, linked it with another major touring zoo and circus and toured all over Australia.
In 1949, Morton decided to move to the USA and, having by then learned an act using hypnotism as well as his other talents, he moved to Los Angeles. After spending two years working as a singer and acting on radio and in some films, he began to appear as The Great Doctor Robert Morton - the World’s Greatest Hypnotist. In 1951, he toured the USA and Canada with his one-man show on which he sang, did recitations, trick shooting, mind reading and hypnotism. He proved so popular that he set attendance records in many cities, including St. Louis, Boston and Vancouver and in Toronto his show outranSouth Pacific. Ever the showman, he used many gimmicks to attract the crowd, including stunts such as walking blindfold on the parapet of the tallest building in the town. In the early 60s, with many similar acts now performing, he gave up the hypnotism and, for a time, he worked on the stage and in films as Robert Morton. He briefly and unsuccessfully resurrected The Great Morton upon his return to Australia in 1965. He toured for a while with a small rodeo show but soon found that television had made such entertainment no longer viable. He continued to record and in 1973, he scored a major Australian hit with his song ‘The Goodiwindi Grey’ (a tribute to a famous racehorse), recorded at what turned out to be his last recording session. Throughout the 70s, he appeared on television and in Australian films and although he often tried to leave out the old hillbilly and yodelling songs, the public would not let him. It is estimated that during his long career he recorded over 1, 000 songs and had many major national hits with numbers such as ‘Beautiful Queensland’, ‘The Black Sheep’ (his bestselling song) and ‘Good Old Droving Days’. In 1976 Morton was the first artist to be inducted into the Australian Country Music Roll of Renown. He died from pneumonia in July 1983.

Talents : Vocals, Guitar

Style musical : Traditional Country

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THE YODELLING BAGMAN (1937)

ROCKY NED (1940)

OLD BLUE (1971)

Years in activity :

1910 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 2000 10

DISCOGRAPHY

78 t., Singles & EP

1936 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-22714 (AUS) . Texas In The Spring / Going Back To Texas
1936 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-22715 (AUS) . Happy Yodeller / Swiss Sweetheart
1936 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-22716 (AUS) . Wyoming Willie / You’re Going To Leave The Old Home Jim
1936 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-22717 (AUS) . The Oregon Trail / Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie
1936 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-22872 (AUS) . The Prairie Is A Lonesome Place At Night / Sing You Cowboy
1936 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-22904 (AUS) . Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / Wandering Stockman
1936 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-22905 (AUS) . Old Ship Of Mine / Ragtime Cowboy Joe
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-22950 (AUS) . Just Drifting Along / The Yodelling Bagman
1937 ? 78 t. COLUMBIA FB-1918 (UK) . Just Drifting Along / The Yodelling Bagman
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-22951 (AUS) . On The Gundagai Line / All Set And Saddled
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23058 (AUS) . Lonesome Valley Sally / Take Me Back To Dream By The Old Mill Stream
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23064 (AUS) . Black Sheep / You’ll Only Have One Mother
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23145 (AUS) . Old Pal Of My Boyhood Days / Across The Great Divide
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23146 (AUS) . Why Should I Work / The End Of A Hobo’s Trail
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23166 (AUS) . The Railroad Bum / Fanny Bay Blues
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23167 (AUS) . Barnacle Bill The Sailor / Peg Leg Jack
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23278 (AUS) . My Sweetheart’s In Love With A Swiss Mountaineer / The Big Rock Candy Mountain
1937 ? 78 t. COLUMBIA FB-1948 (UK) . Big Rock Candy Mountain / My Sweetheart’s In Love With A Swiss Mountaineer
1937 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23279 (AUS) . Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair / There Are Tear Stains On Your Letter Mother Dear
1937 ? 78 t. COLUMBIA FB-2068 (UK) . All Set And Saddled / The Oregon Trail
1938 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23382 (AUS) . The Greatest Mistake Of My Life / I’m Dreaming Tonight Of The Old Folks
1938 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23383 (AUS) . The Letter Edged In Black / Yellow Rose Of Texas
1938 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23415 (AUS) . My Blueridge Mountain Home / Weeping Willow Tree
1938 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23416 (AUS) . When It’s Night Time In Nevada / Red River Valley
1938 ? 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23493 (AUS) . Sergeant Small / The Martins And The Coys
1938 ? 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23494 (AUS) . I Left My Heart In Red River Valley / Bird In A Gilded Cage
1938 ? 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23529 (AUS) . The Martins And The Coys / Move Along Baldy
1938 78 t. COLUMBIA FB-2211 (UK) . My Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Move Along Baldy
1938 ? 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23582 (AUS) . Dying Duffer’s Prayer / Young Pat Maloney
1938 ? 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23631 (AUS) . Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes / My Old Cripple Daddy
1938 ? 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23682 (AUS) . Old Man Duff / Crime Does Not Pay
1939 ? 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23756 (AUS) . Bonny Blue Eyes / My Old Bunkhouse Buddies
1939 ? 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23757 (AUS) . Travel By Train / Murrumbidgee Jack
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23849 (AUS) . Dreams Of Silver / Rocky Ned
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23853 (AUS) . I’ll Be Hanged If They’re Gonna Hang Me / I’m Gonna Yodel My Way To Heaven
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23895 (AUS) . The Day I Left Daddy Alone / The Ned Kelly Song
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23896 (AUS) . Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Let The Rest Of The World Go By
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23933 (AUS) . Billy Brink The Shearer / Little Sweetheart Of Days Gone By
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23934 (AUS) . When The Bloom Is On The Sage / Sleepy Hollow
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-23995 (AUS) . Freight Train Yodel / Aristocrat
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24029 (AUS) . Beautiful Queensland / She Came Rolling Down The Mountain
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24030 (AUS) . If You Please Miss Give Me Heaven / Just Plain Folks
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24031 (AUS) . Old Boko And Me / The Stockman’s Last Bed
1940 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24172 (AUS) . Old Rover / You’ll Never Be Missed
1941 ? 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24263 (AUS) . In The Luggage Van Ahead / The Drover’s Wife
1941 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24314 (AUS) . Come Back To The Valley / Everything But You
1941 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24345 (AUS) . Mandrake / Don’t Sat Goodbye (Tex Morton & Sister Dorrie)
1941 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24376 (AUS) . Old Shep / Through The Sin Of A Son
1941 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24394 (AUS) . When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Rover No More
1943 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24731 (AUS) . The Flowers Never Bloom In Lonesome Valley / The Story Of Parson Joe
1943 78 t. REGAL ZONOPHONE G-24732 (AUS) . The Good Old Droving Days / Neath The Silver Willow Tree
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-001 (AUS) . One Has My Name, The Other My Heart / He Holds The Lantern (While His Mother Chops The Wood)
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-001 (NZ) . He Holds The Lantern / One Has My Name
1949 78 t. RODEO R-002 (AUS) . Don’t Make Me Go To Bed / Frankie And Johnnie
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-002 (NZ) . Don’t Make Me Go To Bed / Frankie And Johnnie
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-003 (AUS) . You And My Old Guitar / My Daddy Is Only A Picture
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-003 (NZ) . You And My Old Guitar / My Daddy Is Only A Picture
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-004 (AUS) . Stockman’s Prayer / My Little Lady
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-004 (NZ) . Stockman’s Prayer / My Little Lady
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-005 (NZ) . Soldier’s Sweetheart, Part 1 / Soldier’s Sweetheart, Part 2
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-006 (AUS) . When You Have No One To Love You / Teardrops In My Heart
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-006 (NZ) . When You Have No One To Love You / Teardrops In My Heart
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-007 (AUS) . A Rolling Stone / Slippin’ Around
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-007 (NZ) . A Rolling Stone / Slippin’ Around
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-008 (AUS) . This Cold War With You / Treasures Untold
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-008 (NZ) . This Cold War With You / Treasures Untold
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-009 (AUS) . I’ll Never Slip Around Again / Rock My Cradle
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-009 (NZ) . I’ll Never Slip Around Again / Rock My Cradle
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-010 (AUS) . Waiting For A Train / Rose Of Shenandoah Valley
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-010 (NZ) . Waiting For A Train / Rose Of Shenandoah Valley
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-011 (AUS) . Just Because / Wabash Cannonball
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-011 (NZ) . Just Because / Wabash Cannonball
1949 78 t. RODEO 10-012 (AUS) . One Golden Curl / When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
1949 78 t. TASMAN TA-012 (NZ) . One Golden Curl / When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
1954 SP PHILLIPS P-24505-H (AUS) . I’ve Known The Truth / I Was Born In Old Wyoming
1954 SP OKEH 4-14014 (US) . I’ve Known The Truth / I Was Born In Old Wyoming
1954 SP PHILIPS P-24506-H (AUS) . Railroad Boomer / I’ve Got You Right Out Of My Mind
1954 SP OKEH 4-14020 (US) . Railroad Boomer / I’ve Got You Right Out Of My Mind
1960 SP FESTIVAL FWA-117 (AUS) . You And My Old Guitar / Dreams Of Silver
1960 SP FESTIVAL FWA-118 (AUS) . Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / The Flowers Never Bloom In Lonesome Valley
1960 EP FESTIVAL FX-5113 (AUS) YOU AND MY OLD GUITAR - You And My Old Guitar / Treasures Untold / Parson Joe / Billy Boy
1960 EP FESTIVAL FX-5115 (AUS) STOCKWHIP AND BLANKET - Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree / May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister / Sleepy Hollow
1960 EP FESTIVAL FX-10110 (AUS) TEX MORTON LOOKS BACK - Abdulla Bul Bul Ameer / She Was Happy Till She Met You / Old Man Duff / The Stockman’s Last Bed
1960 ? EP COLUMBIA SEGO-70039 (AUS) DON’T SAY GOODBYE - The Drover’s Wife / In The Luggage Van Ahead / Don’t Say Goodbye (Tex Morton with Sister Dorrie) / Mandrake (Tex Morton with His Roughriders)
1960 EP COLUMBIA SEGO-70048 (AUS) THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS - The Letter Edged In Black / The Yellow Rose Of Texas / Beautiful Queensland / She Came Rolling Down The Mountain
1961 SP FESTIVAL 31170 (AUS) . The Cat Came Back / Rye Whiskey
1961 EP FESTIVAL FX-10356 (AUS) THE CAT CAME BACK - The Cat Came Back / In Eleven More Months / The Tramp’s Mother / Don’t Go Down The Mine, Dad
1961 EP FESTIVAL FX-10357 (AUS) HALLELUJAH I’M A BUM - Hallelujah I’m A Bum / Frankie And Johnnie / Rye Whisky / Letter Edged In Black
09/1962 SP FESTIVAL FK-259 (AUS) . The Disqualified Jockey / The Letter Edged In Black
1963 EP FESTIVAL FX-10545 (AUS) THE SHOOTING OF DAN McGREW - The Shooting Of Dan McGrew / Alouette / The Cremation Of Sam McGee / Tennessee Waltz (instr.)
1963 EP FESTIVAL FX-10546 (AUS) WALTZING MATILDA
1963 EP FESTIVAL FX-10547 (AUS) THE COWBOY’S PRAYER - The Cowboy's Prayer / Home On The Range / Chant Pagan
1963 EP FESTIVAL FX-10548 (AUS) Tex Morton And Banjo Paterson - Clancy Of The Overflow / Rio Grande
04/1965 EP COLUMBIA SEGO-70088 (AUS) TRAVEL BY TRAIN - Travel By Train / Sergeant Small / On The Gundagai Line / I’ll Be Hanged If They’re Gonna Hang Me
1967 SP COLUMBIA DO-4762 (AUS) . The Green Green Grass Of Home / Tex Morton’s Protest Song
05/1967 SP COLUMBIA DO-4785 (AUS) . Twenty-First Brithday / The Cream In Between
10/1967 SP COLUMBIA DO-5031 (AUS) . The Jailhouse Window / Barnacle Bill The Sailor
1967 SP HMV HR-10484 (NZ) . The Jailhouse Window / Barnacle Bill The Sailor
1968 SP COLUMBIA DO-8303 (AUS) . Welcome To The Club / I’ve Got You Right Out Of My Mind
1968 SP COLUMBIA DNZ-10574 (NZ) . Good Old Days / Rockin’ Alone
01/1969 EP COLUMBIA SEGO-70171 (AUS) TEX MORTON IN NEW ZEALAND - The Good Old Days / The Eyes Of Temptation / Halleleujah I’m A Bum / Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair
1969 SP EMI 7YT. 1029 / 1030 (AUS) (promo) . The Transport Man / Don't Make Me Go To Bed (And I'll Be Good)
1970 SP COLUMBIA DO-8303 (AUS) . Welcome To The Club / I’ve Got You Right Out Of My Mind
01/1970 SP COLUMBIA DO-9025 (AUS) . The Black Sheep / The Transport Man
1970 SP COLUMBIA DO-9489 (AUS) . Bob The Log / The Shicer
1970 EP HMV EGSM-1002 (AUS) THE COUNTRY TOUCH - The Transport Man / The Black Sheep / Miner’s Luck / Don’t Make Me Go To Bed (And I’ll Be Good)
1971 SP COLUMBIA DO-9764 (AUS) . Old Blue / Dunmarra
1971 EP COLUMBIA SEGO-70194 (AUS) A TEX MORTON SINGALONG - Beautiful Queensland / Campfire Medley : Wagon Wheels - Home On The Range - Lone Prairie / Chinese Luck / Rodeo Round-Up : Rocky Ned - Aristocrat - Mandrake
1972 SP RCA 102109 (AUS) . I Like Country Music / The Widow Next Door
06/1973 SP COLUMBIA DO-10256 (AUS) . Bob The Log / There’s A Bridle Hanging On The Wall
1973
SP PICTURE PRS-001 (AUS) (picture disc)

The Goondiwindi Grey / Drinking With The Dead











Albums

1959 LP 12" FESTIVAL FL-7093 (AUS) THE TEX MORTON STORY - Rio Grande / The Shooting Of Dan McGrew / The Cremation Of Sam McGee / Don’t Go Down The Mine Dad / You’ll Never Be Missed / I Belong To Glasgow / The Cowboy’s Prayer / Clancy Of The Overflow / Waltzing Matilda / Chant Pagan
1961 2 LP 12" FESTIVAL FL-30092/3 (AUS) THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE - Introduction by Tex Morton / A Spring Song / The Intro / The Stoush O’Day / Doreen / The Play / The Stror ‘At Coot / The Siren / Mar / Pilot Cove / Hitched / Beef Tea / Uncle Jim / The Kid / The Mooch O’Life
1961 LP 12" FESTIVAL FL 30400 (AUS) TEX MORTON LOOKS BACK - In Eleven More Months / The Tramp’s Mother / Frankie And Johnnie / The Stockman’s Last Bed / Halleleujah I’m A Bum / Abdulla Bul-Bul Ameer / The Cat Came Back / She Was Happy Till She Met You / Old Man Duff / Rye Whiskey / The Letter Edged In Black / Billy Boy
1961 2 LP 12" FESTIVAL FL-30876/7 (AUS) TEX MORTON READS... BANJO PATERSON :
DISC 1 : Prelude / Droving Days / A Bush Christening / The Pearl Diver / Anthony Considine / Clancy Of The Overflow / The Man From Snowy River / Frying Pan Theology / The Great Calamity / The First Surveryor / Over The Range
DISC 2 : Father Reilly’s Horse / Jim Carew / The Man From Ironbark / Maori’s Wool / The Swagman’s Rest / Johnson’s Antidote / Conroy’s Cap
1961 LP 12" COLUMBIA OSX-7631 (AUS) SONGS OF THE OUTBACK - Aristocrat / Wrap Me Up With My Stockwhip And Blanket / The Letter Edged In Black / Rover No More / The Story Of Parson Joe / Good Old Droving Days / Rocky Ned (The Outlaw) / Old Shep / The Drover’s Wife / Murrumbidgee Jack / The Dying Duffer’s Prayer / Mandrake
1962 LP 12" FESTIVAL FL-30935 (AUS) THE VERSATILE TEX MORTON - Kevin Barrie / Treasures Untold / Parson Joe / Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / Sleepy Hollow / Dreams Of Silver / May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister / They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree / You And My Old Guitar / The Disqualified Jockey
1965 2 LP 12" FESTIVAL FL-31685/6 (AUS) ROBERT "TEX MORTON’S READING OF GINGER MICK - Introduction by Tex Morton / Duck And Fowl / War / The Call Of The Stoush / Rabbits / To The Boys Who Took The Count / The Game / A Gallant Gentleman / The Push / Sari Bair / Ginger’s Cobber / The Singing Soldiers / In Spadger’s Lane / The Straight Griffin / A Letter To The Front
1965 LP 12" FESTIVAL FL-31696 (AUS) THE SENTIMENT AND HUMOUR OF BANJO PATERSON, AS READ BY ROBERT (TEX) MORTON - Saltbush Bill / The Road To Old Man's Town / On Kiley’s Run / Been There Before / How Gilbert Died / Santa Claus In The Bush / The Travelling Post Office / Mulea Bill's Bicycle / Story Of Mongrel Grey / A Bunch Of Roses / When Davey Rold The Mule / As Long As Your Eyes Are Blue / Passing Of Gundagai / How McGinnis Went Missing / Lost / Bottle-O
07/1965 LP 12" FESTIVAL FL-31720 (AUS) SING, SMILE AND SIGH - Young Man From The Country / Wee Jeannie Hunter / Young Pat Maloney / I've Known The Truth / The Man On The Flying Trapeze / Billy Brink The Shearer / Little Brown Jug / The Ballad Of Ned Kelly / The End Of The Old Hobo's Trail / After The Ball / The Drover's Wife / Soldier's Sweetheart
11/1965 LP 12" COLUMBIA 330SX7749 (AUS) SENTIMENTAL TEX - Through The Sin Of A Son / Just Plain Folks / Crime Does Not Pay / If You Please, Miss, Give Me Heaven / The Day I Left Daddy Alone / My Old Crippled Daddy / The Black Sheep / A Bird In A Gilded Cage / I’m Dreaming Tonight Of The Old Folks / In The Luggage Van Ahead / The Tramp's Mother / You’ll Only Have One Mother
1965 LP 12" CALENDAR R66-9830 (AUS) AUSTRALIAN BALLADS - The Ballad Of Ned Kelly / At The End Of A Hobo’s Trail / After The Ball / The Drover’s Wife / Soldier's Sweetheart / Kevin Barrie / Treasures Untold / Parson Joe / Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / Sleepy Hollow
06/1966 LP 12" COLUMBIA 33SX7766 (AUS) GOING BACK TO TEXAS - When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Goin’ Back To Texas / All Set And Saddled - My Old Bunk Buddies / Red River Valley / The Prairie Is A Lonesome Place At Night / When The Bloom Is On The Sage / Texas In The Spring / The Oregon Trail / Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie / When It’s Night Time In Nevada / Wyoming Willie
1968 LP 12" CALENDAR R67-6074 (AUS) TEX MORTON LOOKS BACK - In Eleven More Months / The Tramp’s Mother / Frankie And Johnnie / The Stockman’s Last Bed / Halleleujah I’m A Bum / Abdulla Bul-Bul Ameer / The Cat Came Back / She Was Happy Till She Met You / Old Man Duff / Rye Whiskey / The Letter Edged In Black / Billy Boy
11/1969 LP 12" CALENDAR R66-589 (AUS) THE VERSATILE TEX MORTON - Kevin Barrie / Treasures Untold / Parson Joe / Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / Sleepy Hollow / Dreams Of Silver / May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister / They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree / You And My Old Guitar / The Disqualified Jockey
12/1970 LP 12" COLUMBIA SCXO-7933 (AUS) TEX MORTON TODAY - Freight Train Yodel / There’s A Bridle Hanging On The Wall / The Transport Man / A Bush Christening / Australia – A Song Poem (aka “So Wide and Grand” and “We Love Our Land”) / The Good Old Droving Days / Miner's Luck / The Shicer / Don’t Make Me Go To Bed And I’ll Be Good / Bob The Log / The Travelling Showman
1970 LP 12" HORIZON SR66-9795 (AUS) BEST OF TEX MORTON - The Shooting Of Dan McGrew / The Ballad Of Ned Kelly / Little Brown Jug / Sleepy Hollow / The Disqualified Jockey / Young Pat Maloney / The Cremation Of Sam McGee / At The End Of The Old Hobo’s Trail / The Cat Came Back / Waltzing Matilda / Wrap Me Up With My Stockwhip And Blanket / The Drover’s Wife
1972 LP 12" Summit SRA250.098 (AUS) The Tex Morton Story - Rio Grande / The Shooting Of Dan McGrew - Alouette / The Cremation Of Sam McGee - Tennessee Waltz / Don't Go Down The Mine, Dad / You'll Never Be Missed / I Belong To Glasgow / The Cowboy's Prayer - Home On The Range / Clancy Of The Overflow / Waltzing Matilda / Chant Pagan
1973 2 LP 12" FESTIVAL FL-371/2 (AUS) HALLELUJAH I’M A BUM :
DISC 1 : In Eleven More Months / The Tramp’s Mother / Frankie And Johnnie / The Stockman’s Last Bed / Hallelujah I’m A Bum / Abdulla Bul-Bul Ameer / The Shooting Of Dan Mcgrew / The Ballad Of Ned Kelly / Little Brown Jug / Sleepy Hollow  / The Disqualified Jockey / Young Pat Maloney
DISC 2 : Young Man From The Country / Wee Jeanie Hunter / I've Known The Truth / The Man On The Flying Trapeze / Billy Brink The Shearer / She Was Happy Till She Met You / The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee / At The End Of The Old Hobo's Trail / The Cat Came Back / Waltzing Matilda / Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / The Drover's Wife
1973
LP 12" PICTURE CLP-3000 (AUS) (picture disc)

TEX MORTON’S AUSTRALIA - Andy’s Gone With The Cattle / The Coachman’s Tale / Lasca / The Bushrangers / Bullocky Bill / Mick Dooley’s Pants / The Glass On The Bar / I’m Betting The Roll On Roma / The Great Australian Adjective / Daley’s Dorg Wattle / A Satisfied Life / Boko / Holy Dan / The Goondiwindi Grey

1973 LP 12" World RECORD CLUB S-5406 (AUS) TODAY - Freight Train Yodel / There's A Bridal Hanging On The Wall / The Transport Man / A Bush Christening / Australia (A Song Poem) / The Good Old Droving Days / Miner's Luck / The Shicer (Moaner's Luck) / Don't Make Me Go To Bed (And I'll Be Good) / Bob The Log / The Travelling Showm 
12/1973 LP 12" COLUMBIA OEX-10078 (AUS) ENCORES - Burn Another Folkie (aka Protest Song) / Welcome To The Club / The Black Sheep / 21st Birthday / The Creamy / Darwin Jailhouse Window / Old Blue / Green Green Grass Of Home / Dunmarra / Barnacle Bill The Sailor / I’ve Got You Right Out Of My Mind / Australia (abbreviated version)
1975 LP 12" HORIZON SH66- 94069 (AUS) LAUGH & SING WITH TEX MORTON - In Eleven More Months / The Tramp’s Mother / Frankie And Johnny / The Stockman’s Last Bed / Halleleujah I’m A Bum / Abdullah Bul-Bul Ameer / Young Man From The Country / Wee Jeannie Hunter / Young Pat Maloney / I’ve Known The Truth / The Man On The Flying Trapeze / Billy Brink The Shearer / Little Brown Jug
1980 2 LP 12" INTERFUSION 45823/4 (NZ) YOU AND MY OLD GUITAR :
DISC 1 : One Has My Name, The Other My Heart / He Holds The Lantern (While His Mother Chops The Wood) / Don’t Make Me Go To Bed And I’ll Be Good / Frankie And Johnny / My Daddy Is Only A Picture / You And My Old Guitar / A Stockman’s Prayer / My Little Lady / Teardrops In My Heart / When You Have No One To Love You (Linda Darlin’) / (You Were) A Soldier’s Sweetheart (Pts 1&2)
DISC 2 : Slipping Around / A Rolling Stone / This Cold War With You / Treasure Untold / I’ll Never Slip Around Again / Rock My Cradle (Once Again) / Waiting For A Train / Rose Of Shenandoah Valley / Just Because / Wabash Canonball / One Golden Curl / When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
1981 LP 12" HARLEQUIN L-25364 (AUS) GOLDEN GREATS - Goondiwindi Grey / Abdulla Bul-bul Ameer / Great Australian Adjective / Frankie And Johnny / Mick Dooley’s Pants / In Eleven More Months / Little Brown Jug / Holy Dan / Bill Bullocky (sic; should be Bullocky Bill) / Stockman’s Last Bed / The Ballad Of Ned Kelly / The Cat Came Back / The Glass On The Bar / Young Pat Maloney / The Dying Stockman / Sleepy Hollow / The Man On The Flying Trapeze / The Shooting Of Dan McGrew / They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree / You And My Old Guitar
1982 2 LP 12" FESTIVAL L-45932/4 (AUS)

TEX MORTON'S READING OF... The Man From Snowy River And Other Poems - A.B. ("BANJO") PATERSON :
DISC 1 : The Man From Snowy River / A Bush Christening / The Pearl Diver / Anthony Considine / Clancy Of The Overflow / In The Droving Days / Frying Pan's Theology / The Great Calamity / The First Surveyor / Over the Range
DISC 2 : Father Riley's Horse / Jim Carew / The Man From Ironbark / Maori's Wool / The Swagman's Rest / Johnson's Antidote / Conroy's Gap

1982 LP 12" FESTIVAL L-19259 (AUS) TEX MORTON’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM - The Drover’s Wife / Soldier’s Sweetheart / Wee Jeanie Hunter / Young Man From The Country / She Was Happy Till She Met You / I’ve Known The Truth / After The Ball / The Letter Edged In Black / Rye Whisky / The Bushrangers / The Tramps’ Mother / Billy Brink’ The Shearer / At The End Of The Old Hobo’s Trail’ / Hallelujah I’m A Bum / Old Man Duff / Billy Boy / Andy’s Gone With The Cattle / The Disqualified Jockey / The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee / The Cowboy’s Prayer
1982 LP 12" AXIS AX 701279 (AUS) THE BLACK SHEEP - Through The Sin Of A Son / Just Plain Folks / Crime Does Not Pay / If You Please Miss Give Me Heaven / The Day I Left My Daddy Alone / My Old Crippled Daddy On The Gundagai Line / The Black Sheep / A Bird In A Guilded Cage / I’m Dreaming Tonight Of The Old Folks / In The Luggage Van Ahead / The Tramp’s Mother / You Only Have One Mother / Travel By Train
1987 3 LP 12" EMI EMBB 430051 (AUS) THE TEX MORTON REGAL ZONOPHONE COLLECTION - 1936-1943
1991 CD REGAL 1572002 (US) THE GOOD OLD DAYS - Tex Morton’s Protest Song / Welcome To The Club / The Black Sheep / 21st Birthday / The Creamy / Darwin Jailhouse Window / Green Green Grass Of Home / Old Blue / Dunmarra / Barnacle Bill The Sailor / I Got You (Right Out Of My Mind) / Good Old Days / Campfire Medley : Wagon Wheels - Home On The Range - Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie / Chinee Luck / The Eyes Of Temptation / Halleleujah I’m A Bum / Beautiful Queensland / Medley :Rocky Ned - Artistcrat - Mandrake / Rocking Alone (In An Old Rocking Chair) / Australia (So Wide And So Grand) (abridged version)
03/1991 CD FESTIVAL MUSHROOM 25364 (AUS) 20 GOLDEN GREATS - The Goondiwindi Grey (The Gunsynd Song) / Abdulla Bul-Bul Ameer / The Great Australian Adjective / Frankie & Johnnie / Mick Dooley's Pants / In Eleven More Months / Little Brown Jug / Holy Dan / Bullocky Bill / The Stockman's Last Bed / The Ballad Of Ned Kelly / The Cat Came Back / Glass On The Bar / Young Pat Maloney / Wrap Me Up With My Stock Whip & Blanket / Sleepy Hollow / The Man On The Flying Trapeze / The Shooting Of Dan McGrew / They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree / You And My Old Guitar
07/1993 2 CD EMI 8142022 (AUS) THE REGAL ZONOPHONE COLLECTION - VOL. 1 - 1936-38 :
CD 1 : Texas In The Spring / Going Back To Texas / Happy Yodeller / Swiss Sweetheart / Wyoming Willie / You're Going To Leave The Old Home, Jim / The Oregon Trail / Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie / The Prairie Is A Lonesome Place At Night / Sing You Cowboy / Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / The Wandering Stockman / Old Ship Of Mine / Ragtime Cowboy Joe / Just Drifting Along / The Yodelling Bagman / On The Gundagai Line / All Set And Saddled / Lonesome Valley Sally / Take Me Back To Dream By The Old Mill Stream / The Black Sheep / You Only Have One Mother / Old Pal Of My Boyhood Days
CD 2 : Across The Great Divide / Why Should I Work / The End Of The Hobo's Trail / The Railroad Bum / Fanny Bay Blues / Barnacle Bill The Sailor No 2 / Peg-Leg Jack / My Sweetheart's In Love Witha Swiss Mountaineer / The Big Rock Candy Mountains / Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair / There Are Tear Stains On Your Letter Mother Dear / The Greatest Mistake Of My Life / I'm Dreaming Tonight Of The Old Folks / The Letter Edged In Black / The Yellow Rose Of Texas / My Blueridge Mountain Home / Weeping Willow Tree / When It's Night Time In Nevada / Red River Valley / I Left My Heart In Red RiverValley / Bird In A Gilded Cage / Sergeant Small / The Martins And The Coys
07/1993 2 CD EMI 8142052 (AUS) THE REGAL ZONOPHONE COLLECTION - VOL. 2 - 1938-43 :
CD 1 : Move Along Baldy / Dying Duffer's Prayer / Young Pat Maloney / Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes / My Old Crippled Lady / Old Man Duff / Crime Does Not Pay / Bonny Blue Eyes / My Old Bunkhouse Buddies / Travel By Train / Murrumbridgee Jack / Dreams Of Silver And Memories Of Gold / Rocky Ned (The Outlaw) / I'll Be Hanged (If They're Gonna Hang Me) / I'm Gonna Yodel My Way To Heaven / Day I Left Daddy Alone / Ned Kelly Song / Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Let The Rest Of The World Go By / Billy Brink The Shearer / Little Sweetheart Of Days Gone By / When The Bloom Is On The Sage / Sleepy Hollow
CD 2 : Freight Train Yodel / Aristrocrat / Beautiful Queensland / She Came Rolling Down The Mountain / If You Please, Give Me Heaven / Just Plain Folks / Old Boko And Me / Stockman's Last Bed / Old Rover / You'll Never Be Missed / In The Luggage Van Ahead / Drover's Wife / Come Back To The Valley / Everything But You / Mandrake / Don't Say Goodbye / Old Shep / Through The Sin Of The Son / When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Rover No More / Flowers Never Bloom In The Lonesome Valley / Story Of Parson Joe / Good Old Droving Days / 'Neath The Silver Willow Tree
1993 CD HUGHES LEISURE GROUP BUD-CD-3 (UK) THE ORIGINAL - I'm Gonna' Yodel My Way To Heaven / Travel By Train / My Sweetheart's In Love With A Swiss Mountaineer / Peg Leg Jack / The Black Sheep - The Big Rock Candy Mountain / I'll Be Hanged (If They're Gonna' Hang Me) / The Ned Kelly Song / Barnacle Bill The Sailor / Crime Does Not Pay / Rocky Ned (The Outlaw ) / Rocking Alone In Her Old Rocking Chair
1995 CD TEMPO DMCD-230 (AUS) TEX MORTON - The Country Legend : Texas In The Spring / Happy Yodeller / Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / The Yodelling Bagman / The Black Sheep / Why Should I Work? / The Big Rock Candy Mountain / The Letter Edged In Black / Sergeant Small / Travel By Train / Billy Brink The Shearer / Freight Train Yodel / Aristocrat / Beautiful Queensland / Old Boko And Me / The Stockman’s Last Bed / In The Luggage Van Ahead / Mandrake / Old Shep / The Good Old Droving Days
1996 CD KINGFISHER LRH 446 (AUS)

AUSTRALIA'S YODELLING BOUNDARY RIDER - On the Range With "Covered Wagon" : Covered Wagon Theme Music / My Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Wyoming Willie / Liebestraum Liszt / Closing theme music / BH Brisbane Radio Show : Introduction /Hand Me Down My Walking Cane / Tex Morton Broadcast (QLD) : Introduction / When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Rio Grande (monologue) / Conclusion / Covered Wagon : Theme / South America / JoeFriend / Weeping Willow Tree / Texas In The Spring / Ragtime Cowboy Joe / Theme / Tex Morton On The Air : Barnacle Bill The Sailor / Hobo Bill / Roll Along Covered Wagon

08/2001 CD ROOTS OF COUNTRY 211012 (US) TEXAS IN THE SPRING
2004 CD ROUSEABOUT RRH-26 (AUS) WARREN FAHEY PRESENTS YESTERDAY’S AUSTRALIA - Australia’s Yodelling Boundary Rider / On the range with “Covered Wagon” (Warren FAHEY) / Covered Wagon Program Theme / My Blue Ridge Mountain Home / Wyoming Willie / Liebestraum / Wah Hoo / Closing Theme / 4BH Brisbane Show Program : Dialogue / Hand Me Down My Walkin’ Cane / Tex Morton Rodeo Broadcast (Q’ld) : Introd. / When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Rio Grande / Conclusion / Covered Wagon Program : Theme / South American Joe / Weeping Willow Tree / Texas In The Spring / Ragtime Cowboy Joe / Theme / Tex Morton on the Air : Barnacle Bill The Sailor / Hobo Bill / Roll Along Covered Wagon
03/2005 CD BACM 101 (UK)  ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE - THE YODELING BOUNDARY RIDER - Story Of Parson Joe / She Came Rolling Down The Mountain / Black Sheep / Good Old Droving Days / Drovers Wife / At The End Of A Hobos Trail / Freight Train Yodel / All Set And Saddled / On The  Line / Ned Kelly Song / Old Pal Of My Boyhood Days / Across The Great Divide / When The Cactus Is In Bloom / Old Man Duff / Crime Does Not Pay / Wyomin Willie / I Left My Heart In Red River Valley / Texas In The Spring / Oregon Trail / The Martins And The Coys / Move Along Baldy / Rocky Ned The Outlaw
2008 CD ? (AUS) THE ORIGINAL - I'm Gonna Yodel My Way To Heaven / Travel By Train / My Sweethearts In Love With A Swiss Mountaineer / Peg Leg Jack / The Black Sheep / Big Rock Candy Mountain / I'll Be Hanged (If They're Gonna Hang Me) / The Ned Kelly Song / Barnacle Bill The Sailor / Crime Does Not Pay / Rocky Ned (The Outlaw) / Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair
02/2010 2 CD Big Jo-Ke Music / SONY 88697 60960 2 (AUS) THE ESSENTIAL TEX MORTON :
CD 1 : Happy Yodeller / Swiss Sweetheart / Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie / Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket / The Wandering Stockman / On The Gundagai Line / All Set And Saddled / The Black Sheep / Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair / I'm Dreaming Tonight Of The Old Folks / Bird In A Guilded Cage / Crime Does Not Pay / Travel By Train / Sergeant Small / The Ned Kelly Song / I Was There In Old Wyoming
CD 2 : Billy Brink The Shearer / Aristocrat / Beautiful Queensland / In The Luggage Van Ahead / Mandrake / The Good Old Droving Days / I'm A Rolling Stone / Waitin' For A Train / You And My Old Guitar / Rose Of Sheivendoah Valleys / I've Know The Truth / The Neighbor's Wife / I've Got You / Circus Song / Kiwi Songs / Railroad Boomer
04/2012 2 CD Timeless Music - Warner 5310521002 (UK)

The Singing Cowboy Sensation Tex Morton :
CD 1 : Texas In The Spring / Going Back To Texas / Wyoming Willie / You’re Going To Leave The Old Home Jim / The Oregon Trail / The Prairie Is A Lonesome Place At Night / Ragtime Cowboy Joe / Old Ship Of Mine / Just Drifting Along / The Yodelling Bagman / Lonesome Valley Sally / Take Me Back To Dream By The Old Mill Stream / You’ll Only Have One Mother / Old Pal Of My Boyhood Days / Across The Great Divide
CD 2 : The End of The Hobo's Trail / The Railroad Bum / Fanny Boy Blues / The Martins and the Coys / Red River Valley / I Left My Heart In Red River Valley / When Its Night Time In Nevada / Weeping Willow Tree / My Blueridge Mountain Home / The Yellow Rose Of Texas / The Letter Edged In Black / The Greatest Mistake Of My Life / There Are Tear Stains On Your Letter, Mother Dear / My Sweetheart's In Love With A Swiss Mountaineer / The Big Rock Candy Mountains

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